{"id":329411,"date":"2025-12-22T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329411\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:40:07","slug":"why-i-light-up-my-garden-for-more-than-half-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329411\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I light up my garden for more than half the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sandra Lee Myles cheerfully admits that she has absolutely no idea just how many Christmas lights she actually owns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 44-year-old smiles as she says she only stopped putting them out in the family garden when she ran out of plugs and extension cords. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a big kid at heart so it gives me a lot of pleasure,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just puts smiles on people&#8217;s faces as they pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">December is the month she decorates the garden for Christmas but this follows on from her displays for autumn, then Halloween, Guy Fawkes night, Remembrance Day and St Andrew&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will also change her lights for New Year, Burns&#8217; Night, Valentine&#8217;s Day, Mother&#8217;s Day, Father&#8217;s Day and Easter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, she lights up her garden for more than half the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandra Lee Myles cheerfully admits that she has absolutely no idea just how many Christmas lights she actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-329411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}